LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shoreline
BECAUSE of the growing interest in Shoreline clubs it has been suggested that we try to organise a general, countrywide get-together and, following a kind offer from Shoreline Club No 3, Southend-on-Sea, we are looking into the possibility...
Category: Articles
Mary B.
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
A Fishing Vessel
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
A Skilful Rescue In Unknown Waters
AT 12.45 on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1952 the coastguard telephoned the life-boat station at Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides that the crew of a local motor boat, the Mayflower, were marooned on rocks.
The...
Category: Services
Appeal on Behalf of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The Angel of Death laughed aloud in his glee, As he wildly careered o'er the pitiless sea : To the winds and the waters he spake but a word, And the wind and the waters grew mad as they heard.
He laid his cold hand on...
Category: Poetry
Vieux Copains
Driven ashore THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Stornoway lifeboat station received a message from HM Coastguard at 0540 on Sunday, August 28, saying that a small foreign vessel, Vieux Copains, had gone aground at Battery Point at Stornoway Bay, one...
Hazard
Early on the following day the brig Hazard, of Grimstead, bound to that port from Dover, in ballast, showed signals of distress in the offing. She appeared to be trying to work off the land, but could not do so, owing to the heavy wind and...
David M. (1)
Caiiter, and Great Yarmouth and Gorlet- ton.Norf oik.—At 7.55 in the morningof the 2nd of April, 1949, the Great Yarmouth coastguard telephoned to the Caister life-boat station information, received from Lloyd's agents, that the motor...
Letters
Twin pedal power For Northfleet Carnival I built a lifeboat round my bicycle and here is a photograph of 'yours truly' at the helm (or should I say handlebars?) while pedalling along in the carnival on July 1. We had a collection...
Category: Correspondence
The Dory Angelina
Every second counts as three saved from submerged dory The crew of the Whitstable lifeboat had just 17 minutes to save three lives. Weather conditions were so bad, they exceeded the operating limits of the lifeboat, but the crew knew that...